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Depression/Anxiety

Patient ID: Sex: F Age: 31

Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.

1. Describe your main suffering? Depression/anxiety. The depression makes me feel like I have a deep-seated apathy with no desire to be creative or do anything fun, don't feel happy, and every problem in my life seems difficult or impossible to overcome. Very irritable with family members. Feeling like a failure, like I'm defective, like maybe I shouldn't have been born. The anxiety manifests in irrational fears, thoughts of someone harming me or my family, and a general all-day tension in my muscles and feeling like something bad might happen any moment.



2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? Frequent migraine-like headaches--almost every day; muscle tension & aches
Also, some pain with intercourse. This seems related to my urinary tract abnormalities--I was born with double kidneys and double ureters, so 4 of each.


3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? I think I already described that above.


4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst?
When the depression is really bad I just want to escape. That if I could somehow die without making anyone else sad, I would do it.

5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?
I think the depression has its roots in my childhood, with the kidney abnormalities it gave me frequent UTIs, and I was always the sick one, and felt alone and sometimes unwanted because I knew I was causing everyone else to worry and be stressed out because of my illnesses. This led to a feeling of being defective and different than everyone else.


6. Which time of the day you are worst? Seems like the evenings, when I am alone or have time to think about things when the kids go to bed.

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Too much alone time aggravates it, but also too much socializing makes me very tired and stressed out. Seems like a period of high stress or heightened, sustained anxiety will lead to a period of increased depression.
As for alleviating--feeling wanted and loved helps me feel better. Feeling connected to family or loved ones.



8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
Right now I'm nursing, so I haven't had a period in quite some time, since before I was pregnant. But when I would have a period, my depression symptoms would worsen noticeably. I would be very irritable and angry and moody.


9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
I prefer cold weather to hot, and dry to humid. Hot weather makes me feel lethargic and dull. Cold weather invigorates me.

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.
After doing a personality profile on myself, I am the type who is a dreamer, creative, introverted, with deep feelings I don't often share with others. I think this also contributes to my feeling different and alone because I feel that others wouldn't understand my deepest thoughts/feelings if I were to share them.
In general, and with the depression, I tend to be lazy, irritable, withdrawn, anxious, antisocial.

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? I love thunderstorms and they always get me excited. I like watching the lightning and hearing the thunder. It feels like a powerful thing and makes me feel energized.

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? Usually when I cry I prefer to be alone because I feel embarrassed about it, but deep down I would prefer to be held or consoled or for someone to be with me when I cry.

- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? My hearing is a bit more sensitive than my husband's, but in general noise and light only bother me when I have a headache/migraine.

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc? I tend to do a short laugh while talking, I think it's a nervous habit. When anxious I tend to pick at my fingernails, looking for hangnails, etc or play with my watch or wedding ring.

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife? My husband I feel good about, I love him and although I feel like he might not understand my innermost self, he does appreciate me and tries to help me not feel sad or alone. I feel like we are a good match and that we both support each other well.
I love my children but sometimes the depression makes me want to escape my mom duties. I am a stay at home mom so I am with them 24/7. My youngest can be needy sometimes (he's 6 months old) and also my oldest (almost 4) sometimes is just so talkative, I want him to be quiet for awhile. I recharge best from alone time but I don't really get it anymore with being a mom. But I love my kids and willingly sacrifice for them.
As for my other family/friends, I generally feel like I enjoy their company, but don't feel super close to them, I don't feel they know me intimately and I'm not sure they'd understand me if I shared with them more than the surface stuff.

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
My fears are primarily concern for my family and myself, for my safety and theirs. I have fears of someone breaking into our home and either hurting or killing me while leaving my children to be abandoned. Or that one of my children were to get killed. Or my husband.

As for dreams, usually a repetitive theme is me in some social situation, being awkward and not fitting in or embarrassing myself somehow.

12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions? Hm. Food right now is something I'm kind of apathetic about, I'm still eating enough but nothing really sounds good. Aversions, I don't care for the texture of many meats, for example I don't like steak or pot roast, but will eat ground beef. I don't like chicken on the bone but will eat boneless, skinless. I don't like turkey. I like many vegetables and fruits and I like grains like bread, rice, oats, etc. I don't like plain tomatoes but I like them cooked and seasoned.


13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive? I would say normal for a breastfeeding mom.

14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?
Normal for a nursing mom.

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
There are certain textures which make me gag, like the meat thing, usually stringy textures, and some stringy squashes make me gag too.

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? A bit more on the sweating, I think from hormones from nursing, I get night sweats sometimes--mostly the trunk I'd say. Also during the day I feel like my 'thermostat' runs hotter than normal.

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? Since the birth of my son 6 months ago, I tend toward constipation. I use either magnesium 250mg daily or a stool softener to keep myself regular.

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping? I like to sleep mostly on my stomach, or my side. Right now my youngest son, the 6 month old, wakes me usually 5-8 times a night wanting to nurse, and has since birth, so I tend to be rather sleep deprived from the frequent wakenings. Normally I sleep pretty well, sometimes it's hard to fall asleep or I feel like my mind is racing.


19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general? Not adequately, for one I have had a return of this pain with intercourse, which I am going to see a urologist for because it was fixed before when they surgically repaired a urinary disorder I had since birth. Didn't get it fixed though till about 3 years ago. But I think pregnancy and birth has exacerbated the problem again somehow.
Another problem is the side effects of the antidepressants I am on, cause me to have no sex drive and also interfere with my ability to orgasm. So I don't have much desire for sex and even when I do have a desire it never goes the way I want. Kind of frustrating.

20. How do you think you are different from others, if at all? I feel like most people are satisfied with a more superficial interaction with their peers or loved ones, whereas I crave a deep emotional intimacy which is hard to find in most people. Also I feel like I am more interested with things that are abstract or ethereal in nature, whereas others usually want concrete facts or to talk about the known rather than the unknown.


21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication? I take Wellbutrin 75mg once a day, and Paxil 20mg a day. I used to take 25 mg of Zoloft and that controlled it pretty well until I had a miscarriage 2 years ago, then I had a deep depression which it didn't help with anymore. Switched to the Wellbutrin but more recently, since the birth of my second child I feel that that wasn't working well enough either and so my doctor added in Paxil which helps with the anxiety. I'm also seeing a psychotherapist and that's starting to help some. I'd rather not be on the medications at all though, especially because I'm nursing and I know there are potential risks to the baby.


22. What major diseases are running in your family? High blood pressure, heart disease, depression on both sides of the family, some sort of kidney disorder since my sister and I were both born with different kidney abnormalities (nothing in mom or dad though, but probably something on my dad's side of the family, unknown what it is though). My youngest son inherited my kidney problem--he has double kidney on one side only.


23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance. 5'3', brown hair, hazel eyes, smallish bone structure and about 20 lbs overweight. I don't exercise much at all so my muscles are pretty soft.

24. (ONLY FOR FEMALES)

Please answer the following questions:
(Please give details of your past menstruation if you have attained menopause.)

- Are the periods early, regular or late in general? Usually very regular about every 27 days.

How long do they last? Usually about 7 or 8 days.

- Do you suffer from any kind of physical or mental discomfort before, during or after the periods? During usually mild cramps, loose stools, irritability, headaches/migraines, moodiness, unreasonable anger at others, withdrawal socially.

- Is the flow scanty, normal or excessive? Heavy at first day or two, then lighter as it goes on.

- Is the blood thick bright red or pale watery? Thick dark red at first, then sort of a medium red lightening to pink at the very end and then brown.

- Do you notice any clots in the flow? Sometimes a few small ones at the beginning.
 
  alaskamom on 2013-11-26
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
I understand you have been taking a few anti-depressants to take care of your moods etc.

If you cannot do without these medicines and would still continue taking these mood elevators while taking homeopathic treatment, you may not have any benifit from the remedies.

Its best to know before taking the case, whether you agree to stop the pills you are taking now.
 
rishimba last decade
My point in posting this was to help get me off the antidepressants. I thought I made that clear.
I can't stop them cold turkey, one of them (Paxil), my doctor tells me I will get very sick if I don't take it every day. She recommends a very slow wean over a month or two if/when I am ready to come off of it. So I will have to end up taking antidepressants at the same time as homeopathics, I'm guessing.
 
alaskamom last decade
I guess in that case you need to wean yourself off Paxil and then go for homeo treatment.

Homeopathic remedies work best when they see the original and pure disease symptoms without being aided by external chemistry.
 
rishimba last decade
Please take Ashwagandha-Q (15 drops per dose thrice a day) It will boost your immunity system and you will able to go off from these allopathic medicine after some time. This is my opinion, however you may follow dr.rishimba.


dr. mahfooz
 
Mahfoozurrehman last decade
All right then, I guess I will withdraw my inquiry, since I cannot function without the medication at this time. Perhaps when I have done the psychotherapy for some length of time, then I can try weaning off the medication and give homeopathy a try. But I don't think I can go off of them right now. I am a mom to two and I need to be able to function for them.
 
alaskamom last decade
Alaska mom,

It is not that it is a clear cut rule that you cannot get homeopathic
treatment while on medication. Many homeopaths treat people with
remedies while they are on medication and as they feel better start
to lessen the allopathic meds till they are off them. However, this
requires a lot of time and expertise on how to do this safely.

In your case you really need a professional homeopath who has a lot
of success and focus in this area. One of those homeopaths is Dr. Judyth Ullman,
who is a naturopath doctor, famous homeopath/author/teacher and has
a focus on treating mental problems as she started out as a psychiatric
counselor. She will work with you by phone ( she is in Seattle) This would
be a good option for you, when you can afford it. Here is a link to her
advice to other homeopaths on mental illness cases.http://healthyhomeopathy.com/articles/treating-psychiatric-p...
 
simone717 last decade
Hi Simone, thanks for that information, I am glad to hear that it's possible to do both at once in some cases. I hope at some point I could contact Dr. Ullman, I would eventually like to get off of antidepressants altogether. Thanks again!
 
alaskamom last decade
Anxiety can be a useful and it is a normal reaction to danger because it is a protective mechanism. However excessive amounts or over-reactions lead to problems and indicates an anxiety disorder because it is disproportionate to the stimuli.
 
ShanBurford last decade

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